Create freebsd-testing-results@ list for Jenkins results?

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Thu May 21 06:51:16 UTC 2015


Craig,

Those points make a lot of sense.

Is there a way that jenkins can set a HEADER so that it's easily 
filtered by people?

I assume that people know how to use procmail or their MUA's filtering 
tools.

-Alfred

On 5/20/15 11:32 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I am opposed to this.
>
> The minute you push these email notifications to a separate list,
> then the whole utility of Jenkins goes down, because most people won't
> be subscribe to the list.
>
> The whole point of running a CI system like Jenkins is to unfortunately be
> a bit annoying
> and "in your face".  FreeBSD doesn't have a QA department to triage
> failures and notify
> developers, so sending e-mails to
> targeted lists is important.  As it is, FreeBSD people don't subscribe to
> all the same lists, so no matter what,
> you can't make everyone happy.
>
> At this link:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/current-stable.html
>
> it mentions that bulletins about the state of the FreeBSD-CURRENT branch
> go to the freebsd-current@ list.  So that's why it is OK for e-mail
> notifications
> from the old Tinderbox or Jenkins to go to that list.
>
> I have received e-mails privately thanking me for setting this stuff up.
> Some folks (who are not FreeBSD committers) monitor lists like
> freebsd-current@,
> and when they see Jenkins failure e-mails
> on the list, that gives them a clue that they should hold off on updating
> the tree.
>
> So freebsd-current@ is used to notifiy committers *and* non-committers
> about the
> state of the branch.
>
> jenkins is already configured to send e-mails to several lists, such as
> freebsd-current, freebsd-stable, freebsd-doc, freebsd-i386, depending on
> the build job,
> so we don't send every e-mail to freebsd-current for all the builds that we
> do.
>
> So Jenkins is doing its job, even if it annoys some people and makes some
> people
> like Steve Kargl unhappy.
>
> What we can consider doing is reducing the number of lines in the e-mall
> notification,
> to prevent very large e-mails from being sent to the list.  There may be
> tunables
> in Jenkins that we can look at for this.  That is worth exploring.
>
> No matter what, you can't make everyone happy with build break e-mails.
>
> However, pushing them off to the side is not the direction we should be
> going in.
>
> --
> Craig
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>          As some know who are subscribed to freebsd-current, the list gets
>> spammed a lot with test results (pass/fail transitions mostly) for the
>> Build_Image_and_Run_Tests_in_Bhyve_HEAD job. I was wondering if anyone
>> would be opposed to creating another list to capture the results, e.g.
>> freebsd-testing-results at FreeBSD.org, and if so, would you subscribe to
>> the list?
>> Thanks!
>> -NGie
>>
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